10/29/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Potomac Dialogue 2026 – Center for Asia Pacific Strategy
2. Fake News for the Resistance: The Office of Strategic Services and the Nexus of Psychological and Unconventional Warfare During World War II
3. They Were the Military’s ‘Quiet Professionals.’ Now They’re Talking.
4. Hegseth Fires a Top General
5. U.S. Expels Cuban Diplomat After Extraordinary U.N. Verbal Clash
6. Officials Back Trump’s Claim That Triumphal Arch Is Needed for National Security
7. Opinion | Ukraine Enlists a Drone for a Pioneering Rescue
8. Exclusive | Vance Reaches Out to Iranian Hard-Liner in Bid to Restart Peace Talks
9. Opinion | America Needs a 911 Line for Cybersecurity
10. The US space industry will suffer for Ukraine’s Starlink outage, experts say
11. US Army looks to high-flying balloons to help see, strike along front lines with China
12. U.S. Marines Deploy Neros Archer Drone in Camp Fuji Exercise
13. Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” could raise sea levels twice as much as predicted
14. Trouble is Brewing Under the Ice: The PRC’s Use of Science to Gain Military Advantage in the Arctic
15. Spy Chief Tries to Restore Order After Upheaval at Intelligence Office
16. U.S. Special Forces Turn to TEKEVER Drones for Long-Endurance Surveillance From Forward Positions
17. Palantir’s Defense Chief Sees China Threat to Taiwan Over AI
18. The Evolution of Taiwan’s Military
19. Sitting Ducks or Strategic Shields: What Does the Small Reactor Promise Mean for Future Conflicts?
20. Don’t Go Backward on China Policy: The Folly of a Hawkish Restoration
21. A Warrior’s View of Why War Fails: A Conversation with William McRaven
22. Only the Gulf Can End the Iran War: The Arab Monarchies Must Help Washington and Tehran Save Face
Korean News:
1. Potomac Dialogue 2026 – Center for Asia Pacific Strategy
2. Stage of lies and ‘cultural genocide’ – The end-game scenario for dictatorships exposed by state organs.
3. The next chapter of the Korea-U.S. alliance must be built together
4. “Can you trust the U.S. military” The Minister of Defense asks…Ungrateful Korea
5. North Korea fires missiles as border tensions persist
6. N. Korea appears to test propaganda loudspeakers along border
7. Chinese influence could delay U.S.-South Korea command transfer
8. US visa setbacks for ruling party lawmakers raise alliance concerns
9. US visa troubles for Korean lawmakers ‘very unusual’: ex-US diplomat
10. Why is the US reluctant to give South Korea wartime control of its troops?
11. Why Kim Jong-un’s border trip to China differs from past pre-summit playbooks
12. Satellite imagery maps 23 towers at North Korea’s Voice of Korea transmitter site (north Korea that is)
13. The Korean Peninsula’s Way Forward
14. Merz Warns North Korean Troops in Donbas Threaten Europe, South Korea
15. Seoul mulling co-sponsoring U.N. resolution on N. Korean human rights
16. The elephant’s gambit: Why Seoul and Washington should ignore North Korea
17. 4.4 million attacks from North Korean IPs put focus on Pyongyang’s cyber capabilities